GE boss' warning for Europe

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Beccalli-Falco called for a more "united Europe" and for the continent to "open the borders" for young people.

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Europe must stop being nationalistic if it wants to help a lost generation of workers, the regional boss of U.S. conglomerate General Electric says.

Speaking with CNN's Max Foster, Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco, chief executive officer of GE Europe, said: "You have some areas of Europe where unemployment is 30, 40, 50%," he added, "that drives the thinking that if you go nationalistic you're going to solve the problem."

Instead, Beccalli-Falco argued that Europe needed to open its borders to young people looking to escape chronic unemployment.

The CEO, who oversees the company's 84,000 employees in the region, called for a more "united Europe."

He said: "If the young Spanish people who are without a job today, they can find a job in the UK, they could find a job in Germany... we have the possibility of letting people move around and finding a job without all the bureaucracy."

Despite the eurozone posting a meagre 0.1% growth in the third-quarter Beccalli-Falco believes that "any kind of fragmentation" in Europe's political and economic union would only damage growth further.

He said: "It builds walls and you never had economic growth when you had walls around your region or your country."

Nations in the eurozone, Europe's monetary union, are still reeling from the fallout of a debt crisis, spanning four years. The hardest hit nations, Spain and Greece, and to a lesser extent Portugal and Ireland, are suffering from jobless rates at record highs.

Beccalli-Falco said that politicians need to push through the agreement as soon as possible, adding: "I hope only that we are not going to waste too much time in the details of an agreement like this one."